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The Film Company type holds companies that have funded or released films. It also includes movie studios.
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| x Fox Film |
The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the...
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| x Toho |
Toho Co., Ltd. (東宝株式会社, Tōhō Kabushiki-kaisha, TYO: 9602) is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company. It is headquartered in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside...
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| x Pinewood Studios |
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Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of central London.
The studios have played host to many productions over the years from huge blockbuster films to television...
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| x Twickenham Film Studios |
Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio located in St Margarets, London, England used by many motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Dr. Ralph Jupp on the site of a former ice-rink. At the time of its original...
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| x Ealing Studios |
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Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since....
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| x Hammer Film Productions |
Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction,...
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| x Gaumont Film Company |
Gaumont Film Company is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864–1946). Gaumont is the oldest continuously operating film company in the world.
Originally dealing in photographic apparatus,...
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| x Essanay Studios |
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The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.
The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, United States by George K. Spoor and Gilbert M....
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| x Merchant Ivory Productions |
Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their films were for the most part produced by the former, directed by the latter, and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, with the...
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| x Rank Organisation |
The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company, eventually a conglomerate, formed during 1937 and folded in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. It was the largest and most vertically-integrated film company in Britain, owning production,...
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| x Major film studios |
A major film studio is a movie production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box-office revenues in a given market. In the North American, Western, and...
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| x DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme |
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme was a famous film studio in the German Democratic Republic-GDR (the German Democratic Republic is also known as the Deutsche Demokratische Republik-DDR), maybe best known for its fairy tale films. The DEFA-Studio für...
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| x Trigger Street Productions |
Trigger Street Productions is an entertainment production company formed by Kevin Spacey and his producing partner Dana Brunetti in 1997. The company's credits include The Social Network, 21, Shrink, Fanboys, Father Of Invention, the Emmy-nonimated...
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| x Focus Features |
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Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus, Good Machine, Gramercy Pictures and October Films) is the art house films division of NBCUniversal, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign...
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| x Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an American film division of Fox Filmed Entertainment alongside the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox. It specializes in independent and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non...
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| x Zeitgeist Films |
Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist are strongly auteur-driven by directors such as Christopher Nolan, Guy...
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| x Mosfilm |
Mosfilm (Russian: Мосфильм, pronounced [məsˈfʲɨlʲm]) is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky...
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| x Aglet Productions |
Aglet Productions is a "no- and low-budget" movie production company, headed by Karl T. Hirsch and responsible for the 1998 movie Green.
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| x Nikkatsu |
The Nikkatsu Corporation (日活株式会社, Nikkatsu kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō...
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| x Shepperton Studios |
Shepperton Studios is a film studio in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931 since when many notable films have been made there. It is now part of The Pinewood Studios Group together with Pinewood and Teddington Studios in...
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| x Fox Entertainment Group |
The Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties. Fox Entertainment Group is wholly owned and controlled by the Australian...
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| x Lenfilm |
Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" (Russian: Киностудия Ленфильм) is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation...
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| x Elstree Studios |
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ELSTREE STUDIOS
(Formerly known as ASSOCIATED BRITISH PICTURE CORPORATION and EMI ELSTREE STUDIOS.) A film studio complex situated in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The facility boasts a selection of sound stages and is forty minutes from the city of... |
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| x Amicus Productions |
Amicus Productions is a British film production company, based at Shepperton Studios, England. It was founded by American producer and screenwriter Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg.
Amicus is perhaps best known for Subotsky's own trademark...
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| x October Films |
October Films was an American independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet. It is unrelated to the UK-based factual television production...
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| x Castle Rock Entertainment |
Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which in turn is a unit of...
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| x LUX |
LUX is the principal centre for the promotion and distribution of experimental film and video works in the UK.
It has one of the largest collections of experimental film and video art and houses works of over 1000 artists. It was formed in the 1990s...
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| x Dimension Films |
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Dimension Films is an American science-fiction film production company owned by The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films. The Weinstein Brothers took this label...
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| x Film4 Productions |
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed...
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| x Keystone Studios |
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Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company filmed...
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| x A.k.a. Cartoon |
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a.k.a. Cartoon (sometimes stylized as a.k.a. CARTOON) is a Canadian animation studio located in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was founded on April 1, 1994, by Danny Antonucci.
a.k.a. created and produced The Brothers Grunt for MTV but was best...
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| x Gainsborough Pictures |
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Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London. Gainsborough Studios were active between 1924 and 1951. Built as a power...
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| x Mandalay Entertainment |
Mandalay Entertainment Group is an American entertainment company founded in 1995 by Peter Guber, with interests in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media.
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| x Fresco Pictures |
Fresco Pictures is a relatively young film company, formed in 1996 and based in Los Angeles. The principals of the corporation are Peter Johnson and science fiction author Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game.
Current works in progress are:...
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| x Jim Henson's Creature Shop |
Jim Henson's Creature Shop is a company founded in 1979 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, and Frank Oz.
It was originally created as a result of the observation that the team that had been put together for The Dark Crystal was...
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| x Bad Robot Productions |
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Bad Robot Productions (formerly known as only Bad Robot) is an American film and television production company owned by J. J. Abrams. It is responsible for the television series Alias, Lost, What About Brian, Six Degrees, Fringe, Undercovers, Person...
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| x 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks |
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40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks is the production company of noted American filmmaker Spike Lee (born 1957).
The company is named after a famous episode of early Reconstruction. In 1865, General Sherman issued "Special Field Order 15", which ordered the...
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| x Zagreb Film |
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Zagreb Film is a Croatian film-producing company from Zagreb, founded in 1953. They have produced hundreds of animated films, documentaries, television commercials, educational films and several feature films.
Their probably most famous product was...
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| x Seven sisters |
The seven sisters of the Hollywood film industry were the major movie studios of the period between the early 1980s, when the Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group emerged as a major, and 2005, when MGM was acquired by a consortium...
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| x Pathé |
Pathé or Pathé Frères (French pronunciation: [pate fʁɛʁ], stylized as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.
Founded as Société Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers Company) in Paris,...
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| x Denham Film Studios |
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Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.
The studios were founded by Alexander Korda, on a 165 acre (668,000 m²) site near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. At the time it was the largest facility...
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| x Soyuzmultfilm |
Soyuzmultfilm (Russian: Союзмультфи́льм, translated as Union Animation Film) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted...
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| x Marvel Studios |
Marvel Studios, originally Marvel Films, is an American television and motion picture studio based in Manhattan Beach, California. Marvel Studios is a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, a self-contained part of the The Walt Disney Company...
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| x Victor Studios |
The Victor Film Company was a motion picture company formed in 1912 by movie star Florence Lawrence and her husband, Harry Solter. The company established Victor Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, when early film studios in America's first motion...
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| x Prana Film |
Prana Film was a short-lived silent-era German film studio. Its intent was to produce occult and supernatural themed films. Its only film, 1922's Nosferatu, was its end: it declared bankruptcy in order to dodge copyright infringement suits from Bram...
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| x EMKA, Ltd. |
EMKA, Ltd. is an in-name-only division of Universal Studios' television unit whose sole function is overseeing Paramount Pictures' pre-1950 sound feature film library. EMKA was formed by MCA (Music Corporation of America) in 1957 (the company's name...
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| x Rolling Thunder Pictures |
Rolling Thunder Pictures was a short-lived film distribution company, set up under Miramax Films by Quentin Tarantino, that was headed by Jerry Martinez and Tarantino. It specialized on releasing independent, cult, or foreign films to theaters. The...
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| x American Mutoscope and Biograph Company |
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The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company was founded in 1895, and the oldest motion pictures and entertainment company in America and in existance today. The company was originally called 'American Mutoscope Company' and was started by...
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| x Kino International |
Kino International is a film and video distributor, founded by Bill Pence in 1977. Donald Krim bought Kino just months after its founding and served as president of the company until his death from cancer in 2011. Kino, based in New York City,...
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| x ABC Circle Films |
ABC Circle Films (also known as ABC Productions) was the ABC film and TV production division. It was well known for producing many TV shows such as Moonlighting and America's Funniest Home Videos . The company was named after the ABC Circle logo....
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| x Nickelodeon Movies |
Nickelodeon Movies is the motion picture production arm of children's cable channel Nickelodeon, originally launched in 1995. Its first film was Harriet the Spy. It has produced family features and films based on Nickelodeon programs, as well as...
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| x Hoojoo |
Hoojoo Productions Ltd is an independent film production company located in Liphook, Hampshire in the South of the United Kingdom, which produces work for the film, television and the festival market.
Their released films include:
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| x Central casting |
Central Casting is a casting company located in Burbank, California, United States. They currently specialize in casting extras, body doubles, and stand-ins.
Central Casting was established in 1925 initially as a wing of the major Hollywood movie...
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| x Fox Studios Australia |
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Fox Studios Australia is a major movie studio located in Sydney, Australia, occupying the site of the former Sydney Showground at Moore Park. The studio is owned by News Corporation and was opened in May 1998. It is one of the two film studios in...
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| x Journeyman Pictures |
Journeyman Pictures is an English independent distributor of topical news features, documentaries and footage. The company publishes "The Journeyman Weekly" and has an archive of over 3,000 films. It has its head office in Thames Ditton, Surrey....
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| x Barrandov Studios |
Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe.
Several of the movies filmed there won Academy Awards. At present the studios are often...
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| x London Films |
London Films is a British film production company founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda originally based at London Film Studios in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Things to...
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| x Animal Logic |
Animal Logic is an Australian digital visual effects company based at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia and Santa Monica, California. Established in 1991, Animal Logic's core business has traditionally been the design and production of high-end...
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| x Interscope Pictures |
Interscope Communications (also known as Interscope Pictures) was a motion picture production company founded in 1982 by Ted Field. Its divisions included Interscope Records (which was founded in 1990 as a joint venture with Atlantic Records).
In...
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| x Trimurti Films |
Trimurti Films Pvt. Ltd. is one of the biggest and oldest film production companies in India.
The company was founded by Gulshan Rai in 1970 and his son Rajiv Rai is the current owner of the company after Gulshan Rai's death in 2004. The company...
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